Cell Surface Receptors: A Short Course on Theory and Methods

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Cell Surface Receptors: A Short Course on Theory and Methods, 3rd Edition, links theoretical insights into drug-receptor interactions described in mathematical models with the experimental strategies to characterize the biological receptor of interest. The study of receptors has changed considerably over the period of the publication of the three editions of this book. The cloning of several genomes makes it unlikely that preparations of receptors now or in the future will arise from their purification as trace proteins from native tissues, but rather from a myriad of molecular approaches. Nonetheless, understanding the molecular mechanisms and ultimately the in vivo biology of these receptors means that investigators will engage in molecular, cellular and ultimate in vivo strategies. It should be of value to investigators who want to identify, characterize and understand the biology of a receptor of interest.

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Cell Surface Receptors:: A Short Course on Theory and Methods
Lee E. Limbird
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ASIN: 0792338391

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Cell Surface Receptors: A Short Course on Theory and Methods, Second Edition is a primer for the study of cell surface receptors. The simplified discussion of methods and their underlying principles removes the usual intimidation caused by the specialized vocabulary or sophisticated mathematics that characterize many of the primary papers in this field. In this way, the basic concepts become emphasized. This volume is a starting point: a textbook as well as a manual to which the investigator can return for a refresher course, when needed.

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Highly readable and very informative.......2000-03-30

This book describes the mathematics of receptor ligand binding in a very readable fashion. I actually enjoyed reading it! It covers simple and complex binding interactions. It also contains detailed methods for performing the experiments. I highly recommend it. I am finally going to purchase this book, after wanting to for 10 years.

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This book is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work on the role of nutrition in the development and maintenance of skeletal health. It encompasses the fundamentals of bone development and their biomedical consequences. Eighteen contributions are grouped into five parts: Bone Development and Aging; Nutritional Problems in Mineral Metabolism; Protein, Carbohydrate and Lipids; Trace Elements and Metabolic Bone Disease; and Archaeological Diets and Health. Discussed within this framework of development and aging are the growth and endocrine disturbances associated with undernutrition and the variable composition of infant formulae. The impact of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, magnesium and trace elements on the normal and pathophysiology of bone matrix synthesis, mineral metabolism, osteoporesis and fractures are considered. The text is also rich in often-overlooked lessons from archaeological research on dietary specializations.

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Nutritional Aspects of Bone Health

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ASIN: 0854045856

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Nutritional Aspects of Bone Health provides an in-depth review of the role of diet in the development and maintenance of bone health throughout the lifecycle, and prevention of osteoporosis in later life. The book is multi-authored by the world's leading researchers in this area, who have come together to formulate the first ever textbook on nutritional aspects of bone health, and includes the current and cutting edge science underpinning the prevention of bone disease.

The book is structured such that, in the first section, an overview is provided on what is meant by the terms bone health and osteoporosis and includes key areas such as epidemiology, genetics and the impact of non-nutritional exogenous factors influencing the skeleton. The second section details the established nutritional factors affecting bone health, namely calcium and vitamin D. Section three focuses on the role of macronutrients and macrominerals in bone health, namely protein, phosphorus, sodium and potassium, including the criticality of acid-base homeostasis to skeletal integrity. Section four addresses the effects of microminerals, trace elements, vitamin K, vitamin A and isoflavones on bone. Section five focuses attention on key issues connected with the influence of diet and anorexia and bulimia on bone health including nutrition and bone growth; nutrient:gene interactions; nutrient:drug interactions; and the final section discusses the effect of diet on reduction of fracture risk; the cost-effectiveness of nutritional supplements; and nutritional strategies for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.

The book is targeted at a number of key audiences. Whilst there is a focus on the academic research world and those principally involved in education, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, the book will also be of considerable interest to those participating in the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis, namely those working in the medical and health promotion fields. Furthermore, Nutritional Aspects of Bone Health will be of particular interest to the food industry as the popularity of foods designed to target specific health issues increases, and nutritional therapy has a critical role to play in this major public health problem.

Ask Dr. Nan.: An article from: Women's Health Letter

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Ask Dr. Nan.: An article from: Women's Health Letter
Nan Kathryn Fuchs
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This digital document is an article from Women's Health Letter, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 681 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ask Dr. Nan.
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Publication: Women's Health Letter (Newsletter)
Date: February 1, 2007
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Beef up bone density with better diet, not OCs; amenorrheic athlete.(Women's Health): An article from: Family Practice News

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Beef up bone density with better diet, not OCs; amenorrheic athlete.(Women's Health): An article from: Family Practice News
Timothy F. Kirn
Manufacturer: International Medical News Group
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Release Date: 2005-08-01

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Title: Beef up bone density with better diet, not OCs; amenorrheic athlete.(Women's Health)
Author: Timothy F. Kirn
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Date: July 1, 2004
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Volume: 34 Issue: 13 Page: 51(1)

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Bone metabolism and disease--K/DOQI impact on nurses and dietitians.(Focus on Nutritional Care for Nephrology Patients): An article from: Nephrology Nursing Journal

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Bone metabolism and disease--K/DOQI impact on nurses and dietitians.(Focus on Nutritional Care for Nephrology Patients): An article from: Nephrology Nursing Journal
Susan Knapp
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This digital document is an article from Nephrology Nursing Journal, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2146 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bone metabolism and disease--K/DOQI impact on nurses and dietitians.(Focus on Nutritional Care for Nephrology Patients)
Author: Susan Knapp
Publication: Nephrology Nursing Journal (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2004
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Volume: 31 Issue: 3 Page: 333(3)

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EN tackles new questions about calcium's role in bone health.(Environmental Nutrition) : An article from: Environmental Nutrition

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EN tackles new questions about calcium's role in bone health.(Environmental Nutrition) : An article from: Environmental Nutrition

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Nutrition, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 549 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: EN tackles new questions about calcium's role in bone health.(Environmental Nutrition)
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Volume: 29 Issue: 5 Page: 3

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Maternal vitamin D affects child's bone mass.(Musculoskeletal Disorders): An article from: Family Practice News

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Maternal vitamin D affects child's bone mass.(Musculoskeletal Disorders): An article from: Family Practice News
Diana Mahoney
Manufacturer: International Medical News Group
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ASIN: B000ALUA72
Release Date: 2005-07-25

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on June 15, 2005. The length of the article is 610 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Maternal vitamin D affects child's bone mass.(Musculoskeletal Disorders)
Author: Diana Mahoney
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Date: June 15, 2005
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Volume: 35 Issue: 12 Page: 48(1)

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Mothers' beverage choices vital to girls' bone health.: An article from: Agricultural Research

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Mothers' beverage choices vital to girls' bone health.: An article from: Agricultural Research
Alfredo Flores
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This digital document is an article from Agricultural Research, published by U.S. Government Printing Office on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 602 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mothers' beverage choices vital to girls' bone health.
Author: Alfredo Flores
Publication: Agricultural Research (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2005
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Volume: 53 Issue: 3 Page: 22(1)

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No soy help for bones, cognition in older women.(Women's Health): An article from: Family Practice News

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No soy help for bones, cognition in older women.(Women's Health): An article from: Family Practice News
Kate Johnson
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ASIN: B000842UMO
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on August 15, 2004. The length of the article is 587 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: No soy help for bones, cognition in older women.(Women's Health)
Author: Kate Johnson
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 15, 2004
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Volume: 34 Issue: 16 Page: 38(1)

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Skeletal development: An entry from Thomson Gale's
<i>Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence</i>

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Skeletal development: An entry from Thomson Gale's Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
Stephanie Sherk
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Avoiding hard-to-understand medical jargon, the four-volume “Gale Encyclopedia of Children’s Health” uses language that parents can understand, while still providing enough depth to benefit today's health science students. The set provides in-depth coverage of pediatric diseases and disorders, along with issues related to physical and cognitive/behavioral development.

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The Radon transform is an important topic in integral geometry which deals with the problem of expressing a function on a manifold in terms of its integrals over certain submanifolds. Solutions to such problems have a wide range of applications, namely to partial differential equations, group representations, X-ray technology, nuclear magnetic resonance scanning, and tomography. This second edition, significantly expanded and updated, presents new material taking into account some of the progress made in the field since 1980.

The first chapter introduces the Radon transform and presents new material on the d-plane transform and applications to the wave equation. Chapter 2 places the Radon transform in a general framework of integral geometry known as a double fibration of a homogeneous space. Several significant examples are developed in detail. Two subsequent chapters treat some specific examples of generalized Radon transforms, for examples, antipodal manifold in compact 2-points homogeneous spaces, and orbital integrals in isotropic Lorentzian manifolds. A final chapter deals with Fourier transforms and distributions, developing all the tools needed in the work.

Aimed at beginning graduate students, this monograph will be useful in the classroom or as a resource for self-study. Readers will find here an accessible introduction to Radon transform theory, an elegant topic in integral geometry.

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Theory.......2004-03-12

I saw a previous (1st) edition of this book in my college library. It's too theoretical for engineers--useless for engineers. It's written for mathematicians. I thought this would help since u can't see what's inside online.

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Radon Transforms and Tomography

Manufacturer: American Mathematical Society
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One of the most exciting features of the fields of Radon transforms and tomography is the strong relationship between high-level pure mathematics and applications to areas such as medical imaging and industrial nondestructive evaluation. The proceedings featured in this volume bring together fundamental research articles in the major areas of Radon transforms and tomography.

This volume includes expository papers that are of special interest to beginners as well as advanced researchers. Topics include local tomography and wavelets, Lambda tomography and related methods, tomographic methods in RADAR, ultrasound, Radon transforms and differential equations, and the Pompeiu problem.

The major themes in Radon transforms and tomography are represented among the research articles. Pure mathematical themes include vector tomography, microlocal analysis, twistor theory, Lie theory, wavelets, harmonic analysis, and distribution theory. The applied articles employ high-quality pure mathematics to solve important practical problems. Effective scanning geometries are developed and tested for a NASA wind tunnel. Algorithms for limited electromagnetic tomographic data and for impedance imaging are developed and tested. Range theorems are proposed to diagnose problems with tomography scanners. Principles are given for the design of X-ray tomography reconstruction algorithms, and numerical examples are provided.

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Since their emergence in 1917, tomography and inverse problems remain active and important fields that combine pure and applied mathematics and provide strong interplay between diverse mathematical problems and applications. The applied side is best known for medical and scientific use, in particular, medical imaging, radiotherapy, and industrial non-destructive testing. Doctors use tomography to see the internal structure of the body or to find functional information, such as metabolic processes, noninvasively. Scientists discover defects in objects, the topography of the ocean floor, and geological information using X-rays, geophysical measurements, sonar, or other data. This volume, based on the lectures in the Short Course The Radon Transform and Applications to Inverse Problems at the American Mathematical Society meeting in Atlanta, GA, January 3-4, 2005, brings together articles on mathematical aspects of tomography and related inverse problems. The articles cover introductory material, theoretical problems, and practical issues in 3-D tomography, impedance imaging, local tomography, wavelet methods, regularization and approximate inverse, sampling, and emission tomography. All contributions are written for a general audience, and the authors have included references for further reading.

Analytic Tomography (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications)

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Analytic Tomography (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications)
Andrew Markoe
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This book is a comprehensive study of the Radon transform, which operates on a function by integrating it over hyperplanes. The book begins with an elementary and graphical introduction to the Radon transform, tomography and CT scanners, followed by a rigorous development of the basic properties of the Radon transform. Next the author introduces Grassmann manifolds in the study of the k-plane transform (a version of the Radon transform) which integrates over k-dimensional planes rather than hyperplanes. The remaining chapters are concerned with more advanced topics.

Applied Problems of Radon Transform (American Mathematical Society Translations Series 2)

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Applied Problems of Radon Transform (American Mathematical Society Translations Series 2)

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This collection will acquaint readers with recent work in Radon transforms carried out in the former Soviet Union. The papers focus on mathematical problems related to applications of Radon transforms. Some of the problems arose from practical tomography, while others are theoretical problems originating in tomography. The book will be of interest to mathematicians working in integral geometry and mathematical problems of tomography, as well as scientists who work on inverse problems and their computer realization.

Entire Functions of Paley-Weiner Type Cn, Radon Transforms and Problems of Holomorphic Extension

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Entire Functions of Paley-Weiner Type Cn, Radon Transforms and Problems of Holomorphic Extension
Jan Wiegerinck
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Integral Geometry, Radon Transforms and Complex Analysis: Lectures given at the 1st Session of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held ... 3-12, 1996 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

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Integral Geometry, Radon Transforms and Complex Analysis: Lectures given at the 1st Session of the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) held ... 3-12, 1996 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
Carlos A. Berenstein , Peter F. Ebenfelt , Simon Gindikin , Sigurdur Helgason , and Alexander Tumanov
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This book contains the notes of five short courses delivered at the "Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo" session "Integral Geometry, Radon Transforms and Complex Analysis" held in Venice (Italy) in June 1996: three of them deal with various aspects of integral geometry, with a common emphasis on several kinds of Radon transforms, their properties and applications, the other two share a stress on CR manifolds and related problems. All lectures are accessible to a wide audience, and provide self-contained introductions and short surveys on the subjects, as well as detailed expositions of selected results.

Radon and Projection Transform-Based Computer Vision: Algorithms, a Pipeline Architecture, and Industrial Applications (Springer Series in Information Sciences)

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Radon and Projection Transform-Based Computer Vision: Algorithms, a Pipeline Architecture, and Industrial Applications (Springer Series in Information Sciences)
Jorge L. C. Sanz
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The Radon Transform and Local Tomography

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There are much better books on mathematics of tomography

The Radon Transform and Local Tomography
Alexander G. Ramm , and Alex I. Katsevich
Manufacturer: CRC
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Over the past decade, the field of image processing has made tremendous advances. One type of image processing that is currently of particular interest is "tomographic imaging," a technique for computing the density function of a body, or discontinuity surfaces of this function. Today, tomography is widely used, and has applications in such fields as medicine, engineering, physics, geophysics, and security. The Radon Transform and Local Tomography clearly explains the theoretical, computational, and practical aspects of applied tomography. It includes sufficient background information to make it essentially self-contained for most readers.

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There are much better books on mathematics of tomography.......2003-08-27

I bought this book, but found it pretty much useless. In my opinion, its presentation of techniques and the history of the subject is skewed. Authors' contributions are presented in an overinflated manner, so the reader would never guess that sometimes there exist more powerful and at the same time simpler approaches. There are much better books on mathematics of tomography, for instance the ones written by F. Natterer. Analytically inclined readers would like to read other books on Radon transform, e.g. the one by S. Helgason. The old books directed towards applications by G. Herman and Kak and Slaney are still of value. There are also some good edited volumes on the subject.

The Radon Transform and Some of Its Applications

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Surprisingly Thorough. Fills a Need.
Exciting and fabulous, technically sound, every page counts.

The Radon Transform and Some of Its Applications
Stanley R. Deans
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Of value to mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, this excellent introduction to Radon transform covers both theory and applications, with a rich array of examples and literature that forms a valuable reference. This 1993 edition is a revised and updated version by the author of his pioneering work.

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Surprisingly Thorough. Fills a Need........2000-07-24

This book discusses the definition of the Radon transform, it's properties, it's relation to other transforms (Fourier, et al.), it's inverse, and so on. It is well documented. (It even contains a translation of Radon's original 1917 paper!)

This book is the most useful source of such information I've found, so far. I judge it to be a bit challenging to advanced undergraduate students in mathematics and engineering. Graduate students should be able to handle it and may also feel that it extends them.

Four stars instead of five because some of the proofs reference papers apart from the book. It could be more readable, but it is quite good as it is.

I recommend it.

Exciting and fabulous, technically sound, every page counts........1998-08-05

Stanley Roderick Deans shows us radon transforms like never before seen. This is quite a technically sound spell-bounding book. I have found every page to be useful. I even often go through it again and again on a daily basis. Quite a stunning techinical achievement. A must read for anyone serious about the study of mathematics.

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just before the death of art there came a great one

Dunsany conjures worlds out of a hat

A rich collection of Dunsany's tales

In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales (Penguin Classics)
Lord Dunsany
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ASIN: 014243776X
Release Date: 2004-02-24

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Lord Dunsany has gained a cult following for his influence on modern fantasy literature, including such authors as J. R. R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft. This unique collection of short stories ranges over five decades, including the entire Gods of Pegana and such notable works as "Idle Days on the Yann" as well as several about the garrulous traveler Joseph Jorkens and the outrageous murder tale "The Two Bottles of Relish." Throughout, the stories are united by Dunsany's cosmic vision, his impeccable and mellifluous prose, and his distinctively Irish sense of whimsy.

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just before the death of art there came a great one.......2006-09-08

Brothers and sisters, words fail me in trying to communicate to you who and what Lord Dunsany was. The truth is so simple, and yet seems so fantastic that you might hesitate to believe it. Along with E. R. Eddison, he is the best fiction writer that there ever was, or likely ever shall be (the same could be said of Dunsany as a short story writer in general, and must be, because we are here to tell the truth for a change). Tolkien, for example, is nothing but a pale shadow cast by the sun that is Dunsany; Lovecraft was a rather silly-seeming imitation. Once you have drunk from this well nothing else even comes close; it will almost ruin you for other writers. The question is, if he is just the deepest, saddest, funniest, most clever, most beautiful, and again excepting only Eddison the flat-out best writer of any kind the latter-day Western world has produced -- and he is, brothers and sisters, he IS -- why doesn't everyone know about it? Why has he fallen into obscurity?

The reason is simple and obvious. Look around you. The world has gone mad. We have lost all connection to the real. And this great man, this Lord Dunsany, saw it, saw it before almost anyone, saw it happening all around him. And he went out and wrote stories about it, stories that are the least real things ever created on the surface -- but touch the very highest levels of reality in their deeper parts. It is just those parts that are invisible or despised in our mad world, and that is why he is hated, ignored, forgotten -- by all but a few, a few who can peer through those veils of madness. Dunsany's work is not escapism. It is literature, literature of the highest order; literature of an exponentially higher order than any of the garbage pushed down our throats by the academics and pseudointellecutal humanities majors whose task it is to maintain this madhouse of a world -- you know, the kinds of people who despise Lord of the Rings and talk themselves into believing that deviant, culture-destroying nut cases such as James Joyce are great writers.

Brothers and sisters, you have found the source of that which you have so long sought. This book, all his best books, are a door into another world, a saner and better world, a world within you waiting to be discovered. Buy this book. Buy all of Dunsany's short story collections, especially the early ones. They will haunt your dreams forever and if you let them, they might even change your life, all without your noticing quite how, why, or when.

Dunsany conjures worlds out of a hat.......2005-06-02

What a marvellous writer Lord Dunsany was!

He influenced everyone, everyone who ever wrote fantasy: HP Lovecraft, Jack Vance, John Crowley, Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, Clark Ashton Smith, Roger Zelazny, the list goes on and on. He has the astonding ability to conjure believeable worlds and nail them down with unsurpassed beauty in 500 word, three page stories! Like Faberge Eggs, each tiny short story conveys lost worlds of intense poetic beauty.

He loved the sounds of King James English and returned to it over and over to fashion his worlds. *The Gods of Pagana* (printed in it's entirety) is no less than a series of drole Myths about the creation of the universe, paralleling and reflecting Greco Roman myths and even Genesis. Dunsany doesn't much care for our modern world, (but what's to care for?...). He comes up with names for his imaginary cities that just roll off the tongue.

Dunsany wrote a story about a thief who is being pursued, running away with his stolen loot from the house at the End of the World. He runs down a long curving staircase on steps carved into the rock. Down and down he runs pursued by the nameless terror behind him, until the steps get larger and larger and the curve gets greater until he falls off the lower edge of the world into space! Now that is vision. (I think that happened to me in a dream once.)

He cranked out these clever little worlds in story after story, *The Book of Wonder* and it's successors, written before and during World War I. He became saddened by the War and it's results and continued to live until the early 1960's, or so, never to return to this form of exotic fantasy.

This book is a survey of decades of his writing. A great introduction to some of his most famous stories. The book tails off somewhat at the end with the Jorgens stories and other post WW1 stuff which is not up to the quality of the crystalline visions in his earlier works.

To think that he accomplished so much with so few words and authors today with their word processors and multi-volume series accomplish so little in comparision.

Read him. He is the source.
Cannot be more highly recommended.

And Lord Dunsany was a real titled English (or Irish) Lord, a Peer of the Realm.

A rich collection of Dunsany's tales.......2004-05-03

Lord Dunsany may never get the vast following of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, but he does have the distinction of being one of the first fantasy writers in history. "In The Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales" is a collection of various stories he wrote, drawing from all of Dunsany's writing.

Among the longish (none of Dunsany's stories is really long) is Dunsany's short novel "Gods of Pegana," a collection of Dunsany's invented myths for countries that never really existed, and the novella "Sword of Welleran," in which legends come to life, including the famed sword of a hero. Not to mention a vast variety of short stories ranging from murder mysteries ("Two Bottles of Relish") to Victorian character study ("Thirteen At Table"), from horror (the creepy "Ghosts") to whimsical fantasy ("The Wonderful Window," the centaur-themed "Bride of the Man-Horse").

One of the good things about "In The Land of Time" is that except for Dunsany's war stories and club tales, just about every kind of fiction he wrote is in here. Fantasy, horror, regular fiction and invented myths -- this guy wrote 'em all. And editor S.T. Joshi does a pretty good job pulling together some of the best things Dunsany wrote. The main problem is that the collection is kind of serious. Since Dunsany could be very funny in some stories, this is leaving a big gap in the collection.

Like the fantasy writers who came after him, Dunsany dipped into myths that weren't his own (like "Charon," a memorable short story about the ferryman of the dead). At the same time, he wove his own legends and myths about gods and heroes, in a vaguely Middle-Eastern setting. If you didn't know better, you could almost believe that these legends were really from some crumbled desert city. And his slightly formal, sparklingly lush language only adds to this feeling.

"In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales" is a solid collection that shows nearly all of Lord Dunsany's considerable writing range. Dunsany's brilliant fantasy is a must-read.

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